Chicago

If we were on an exchange today, that would be a $7.51 Mincoin.
 

A Hard Fork will be activated at block 1452840 which we estimate to occur early morning on Thursday, September 28th.
We are excited to deliver this network upgrade which includes the following new features and introduces Mincoin v0.8.8.
Difficulty Adjustment by Dark Gravity Wave v3 Mined Mincoins Fully Mature at 300 Confirmations Significantly Reduced Transaction Fees More Space in Each Block For zero/low-fee Transactions Larger Orphan Transaction Memory Pool Reduced Mininum Input Size to 25 Micro-Mincoins Full Service IPv4, IPv6 and Tor Seeds Fully Functional Testnet New Checkpoint Alert System Restored 100% Overhaul of Mincoin Code Binaries Are Available on Our Homepage for Linux, Windows and macOS Community Site, Mincoin Forum Upgraded to Invision Power Board v4.2.x sha256sums mincoin-0.8.8.0-linux.tar.gz 701ba9f321120db4b9eb6920c4fd02e4cf2da70ed400d334694b483e1ea066a1 mincoin-0.8.8.0-win32.zip 3b214354869fb8f3babbe474f8a5d1633d5ac46647214726e7211556337779e9 Mincoin-0.8.8.0-Mac.dmg 8da7852dbdb22cd659c4d29381a1da4aff3b09249c15e454f2612aa035d4a0a8  

I want to spin the wheel!  Bring back Mincoin

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Hello, @CryptoJohn
    Glad you're following us and keeping in touch with updates to Mincoin.
    We should be releasing the new client very soon.
    Basically, for the new version we have implemented Dark Gravity Wave v3 for the difficulty adjustment algorithm; have increased the coinbase maturity factor to approximately 5 hours and are now working on the fees.  We want the fees to be reasonable so that it doesn't cost a faucet 0.1 MNC to send some test coins and so that a miner can transfer a days worth of rewards without too many fees.
    Our TestNet3 is active with the changes.  The latest version of the Testnet3 client is v0.8.7.7.
    We'll keep you posted.
 
Best Regards,
-Chicago
 
 

Hello @CryptoJohn,
    If you don't get a PM with more information, send a message to @SuperTramp, he may know somebody willing to trade or sell.
Best Regards,
-Chicago

Awesome! That is exactly how I got here, through the facebook page!
Isn't this also your guy's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mincoinforum/

This is great info! Thanks for posting a wallet backup tutorial for us dummies!

Hello, @CryptoJohn
    Glad you're following us and keeping in touch with updates to Mincoin.
    We should be releasing the new client very soon.
    Basically, for the new version we have implemented Dark Gravity Wave v3 for the difficulty adjustment algorithm; have increased the coinbase maturity factor to approximately 5 hours and are now working on the fees.  We want the fees to be reasonable so that it doesn't cost a faucet 0.1 MNC to send some test coins and so that a miner can transfer a days worth of rewards without too many fees.
    Our TestNet3 is active with the changes.  The latest version of the Testnet3 client is v0.8.7.7.
    We'll keep you posted.
 
Best Regards,
-Chicago
 
 

Looking forward to the Mincoin 2017 update!

... and today is a new dawn for the Mincoin Forum.  The new upgrade to IPS Community Suite 4 will be an asset for years to come as this community grows.
This site is looking mighty fancy.

We shall see.

 

We shall see.

 

Hello Mr. Mincoin,
 
    Thanks!
 
    Yes, new release candidates have been posted in the Mincoin Development Forum for testing to ensure the compatibility across platforms as well as to ensure all the things work quite well.
    It is simply a transitional update, with new libraries linked into it, to secure OpenSSL and such.
 
    I took the opportunity to rebase against Litecoin when doing the work in order to eliminate cruft from the 0.6.x SandyCohen release and the earlier 0.8.7 Vipah release.
    The Alert system has been restored and a testnet has been erected.  All of which we can validate as the testing stakeholders bring their nodes online.
 
    The new client will only communicate with peers using the new client as there is a protocol version upgrade to 70002 and a minimum protocol version requirement of 70002.
    As a stop-gap until we bring everyone on the same new code; a  bridge node is operating to keep the current v60002 peers and the new v70002 peers on the same Best Chain.
 
    Largely, it will be a maintenance release we hope for everyone to adopt.
    Then, we'll be able to evaluate who is getting our message, by upgrading and who might be left behind when we do the next Network Upgrade to the v0.10.2.2 Litecoin code which will bring us the BIP66 improvements and then afterwards, v0.10.4.0 which will bring us a BIP65 lock-in too.
 
    After those steps, we can jump ahead to the fun stuff where the inherited build system on the modern Bitcoin/Litecoin code will give us releases for Raspberry Pi.
 
Best Regards,
-Chicago

Looking forward to the Mincoin 2017 update!

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Hello,
 
    Please share recent nodes which are fully connected.  Unable to find a sync with the network using previously published addnode entries.
 
Best Regards,
-Chicago

Hello,

    It has been a while since I have had the time to do any development with scrypt and after starting my Mincoin wallet again recently, I began to monitor the "SetBestChain" notifications in my debug.log.

    If you care to follow along, look at height 595171 through 595199 for an example of our retargeting algorithm ineffeciencies.

    During this period, the difficulty remained above 5 but afterwards, momentarily dropped to 2 and then multi-pools came along as can be seen from height 595498 to present.

    This is pretty much what Mincoin looked like in April of 2014 when I had last commented on the promise of one minute blocks with SnowLeopard in #Mincoin on Freenode.

    When the blocks are several hours between, the loyal miners are not rewarded.

    When the difficulty algorithm finally retargets reasonably, the multi-pool miners take the money and run.

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    This year, Kimoto's Gravity Well has been adapted to deal with the Time Warp vulnerability which has been used to attack various scrypt chains.

    I would like to collaborate with other interested developers on the Testnet to evaluate a fork of our repository with KGW enhancements for the benefit of the greater Mincoin community.

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The Newbie's Guide to Kimoto's Gravity Well
https://forum.megacoin.co.nz/index.php?topic=893

Regarding Auroracoin TW exploit (Fix included)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895
 
 
Kind Regards,
-Chicago

Hello,

    It has been a while since I have had the time to do any development with scrypt and after starting my Mincoin wallet again recently, I began to monitor the "SetBestChain" notifications in my debug.log.

    If you care to follow along, look at height 595171 through 595199 for an example of our retargeting algorithm ineffeciencies.

    During this period, the difficulty remained above 5 but afterwards, momentarily dropped to 2 and then multi-pools came along as can be seen from height 595498 to present.

    This is pretty much what Mincoin looked like in April of 2014 when I had last commented on the promise of one minute blocks with SnowLeopard in #Mincoin on Freenode.

    When the blocks are several hours between, the loyal miners are not rewarded.

    When the difficulty algorithm finally retargets reasonably, the multi-pool miners take the money and run.

----------

    This year, Kimoto's Gravity Well has been adapted to deal with the Time Warp vulnerability which has been used to attack various scrypt chains.

    I would like to collaborate with other interested developers on the Testnet to evaluate a fork of our repository with KGW enhancements for the benefit of the greater Mincoin community.

----------

The Newbie's Guide to Kimoto's Gravity Well
https://forum.megacoin.co.nz/index.php?topic=893

Regarding Auroracoin TW exploit (Fix included)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895
 
 
Kind Regards,
-Chicago